SIOUX FALLS, S.D. American Indian activist Russell Means, who gained national attention as a leader in the American Indian Movement and rode that wave into acting and politics, died early Monday at his ranch in Porcupine on the Pine Ridge Reservation.

Buyers eager to walk in scam artist Bernard Madoff's footsteps by buying his shoes, bedroom slippers, piano jewelry and hundreds of other items helped the federal government gross more than $2 million from the latest auction to benefit victims of the world's largest Ponzi scheme, the U.S. Marshal's service said late Saturday.

A vintage 55-foot yacht named "Bull" and two smaller boats that once belonged to imprisoned financier Bernard Madoff are headed for the auction block, along with an even bigger yacht once owned by Madoff's right-hand man.